ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,858, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Insyt Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Greyscale lithography techniques for manufacturing field plates" was invented by Kedar Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for efficiently manufacturing field plates with one or more sloped profiles are described. The fabrication of a field plate structure may include the application of greyscale lithography techniques to enable the concurrent formation of one or more sloped surfaces of the field plate structure during one or more common processing steps. A technical benefit of manufacturing field plate structures that have one or more ...